The report from Good Jobs First, a
nonprofit taxpayer watchdog organization funded by Ford, Surdna and
other major foundations, identifies 16 states that let companies divert
some or all of the state income taxes deducted from workers’ paychecks.
None of the states requires notifying the workers, whose withholdings
are treated as taxes they paid.

General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Procter
& Gamble, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and AMC Theatres enjoy
deals to keep state taxes deducted from their workers’ paychecks, the
report shows. Foreign companies also enjoy such arrangements, including
Electrolux, Nissan, Toyota and a host of Canadian, Japanese and European
banks, Good Jobs First says.

A judge in Sanford ruled Tuesday that a Lake Mary
man was lawfully exercising his First Amendment rights when he flashed
his headlights to warn neighbors that a deputy had set up a speed trap
nearby.

He was ticketed Aug. 10 by a Seminole County
deputy, but Kintner alleges the officer misapplied a state law designed
to ban motorists from flashing after-market emergency lights.
Circuit
Judge Alan Dickey earlier ruled that that state law does not apply to
people who did what Kintner did, use his headlights to communicate.

On
Tuesday the judge went a step further, saying people who flash their
headlights to communicate are engaging in behavior protected by the U.S.
Constitution.